The house has new paint, lights and floors.

One of my properties was in the path of Hurricane Florence and while it thankfully didn’t appear to sustain major damage, there’s resulting water stain on the ceiling in the bottom floor.

My sister wants to get involved and will be helping by assisting me in whatever reno projects we can do ourselves (probably just painting, tiling, flooring, and basic stuff to save on labor) and by letting me use her good credit for finance options.

But otherwise it appears in great shape, 5 bed, 2 bath, 1680sqft, 2 floor with cellar.

@John Moran,There are number of active investors as well as service providers who are frequent contributors on this forum.

A property management company is a vendor and I wouldn't give equity in exchange for vendor services. 

So the only question is, does the Market Rent for that location and Type of Unit cover the HOA, plus Debt Service, plus whatever other Expenses need to be paid..Because if it doesn't, the Landlord is in for a world of hurt!.

@Kevin Allen Joe Jr's Flooring, google them.

I would stare at house plan books for hours on end as a child, before creating my own floor plans.

Second floor vacant and first floor is occupied by a long term tenant.